VocalTec Wins Frost & Sullivan VoIP Market Shaping Award.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers FORT LEE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 2003 VocalTec Communications Ltd. (Nasdaq: VOCL VOCL Vault Online Career Library ) (VocalTec), a leading telecom equipment provider offering packet voice solutions for carriers and service providers, today announced it won industry analyst firm Frost & Sullivan's Market Engineering Award for VoIP Market Shaping. The award was presented to VocalTec at the 2003 Excellence in Information & Communication Technology Awards Banquet in Scottsdale, Arizona Scottsdale (O'odham Vaṣai S-vaṣonĭ) is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, adjacent to Phoenix. Scottsdale has become internationally recognized as a premier and posh tourist destination, while maintaining its own identity and culture as " , on Wednesday, January 15, 2003. Frost & Sullivan's analyst team ranked VocalTec first in the industry, based on global market criteria including rate of expansion into new geographic markets, global changes in market share, and overseas partnerships. "VocalTec has demonstrated excellence through a keen understanding of the realities of today's VoIP market. By focusing on offering voice-centric applications to deregulating de·reg·u·late tr.v. de·reg·u·lat·ed, de·reg·u·lat·ing, de·reg·u·lates To free from regulation, especially to remove government regulations from: deregulate the airline industry. and emerging markets, VocalTec has positioned itself for short-term growth and long term viability," stated Jon Arnold, VoP Equipment Program Leader at Frost & Sullivan. "Many of VocalTec's deployments will grow as the natural outcome of increasing teledensity and improving infrastructures in these emerging economies." VocalTec has traditionally focused on international markets and has commercial deployments in more than 100 countries. In deregulating and emerging markets in particular, carriers require basic voice services that can be deployed quickly with low entry costs. VocalTec is well equipped to serve such carriers based on its proven packet voice solutions, global connectivity, and experience in international deployments. This strategy has been highlighted throughout the past year with successful deployments at Data Access (India), The Communications Authority of Thailand, Netia (Poland) and RomTelecom (Romania). The latter two deployments leverage VocalTec's strategic partnership with T-Systems International Carrier Sales & Services, a division of Deutsche Telekom Deutsche Telekom AG (ISIN: DE0005557508, FWB: DTE, NYSE: DT, LSE: DEU, TYO: 9496 ) (abbreviated DTAG) is a telecommunications company headquartered in Bonn, Germany. It is the largest telecommunications company in Germany and in the EU. AG. In India, VocalTec has established a local subsidiary and forged a partnership with the Nirvan Management Group, a leading provider of professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. for the Indian telecom market. "This award is a tribute to VocalTec's strategy and successful ongoing efforts in emerging and deregulating markets around the globe," said Ari Rabban, VocalTec's Vice President of Corporate Development and Marketing. "Our international capabilities, fast time to market and global partnerships make our packet telephony Synonymous with IP telephony and voice over IP (VoIP), in which a digital voice stream is broken up into small chunks (packets) and transmitted over a packet-switched network. See IP telephony and packet switching. solutions a perfect fit for these markets." About VocalTec VocalTec Communications Ltd. (VocalTec) is a leading telecom equipment provider offering packet voice solutions for carriers and service providers. As an innovator and provider of packetized telephony solutions since 1995, VocalTec offers a highly evolved revenue-generating product line to the market. With a customer base including the China Telecom PTAs, Deutsche Telekom, ITXC (Internet Telephony Exchange Carrier Corporation, Princeton, NJ, www.itxc.com) The largest IP exchange carrier in the world. ITXC was acquired by wholesale telco provider Teleglobe Bermuda Ltd. in 2004 and then by Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. , Communication Authority of Thailand (CAT), and Data Access in India, our multi-service solutions are commercially deployed in more than 100 countries, powering 25% of the world's revenue-generating international VoIP minutes. VocalTec's field-proven solutions support carrier services including international/long distance calling, packet tandem switching A telephone central office switch that links telco end offices together and does not connect to the customer directly. Also called a "Class 4 switch" or "TDM switch," a tandem switch is a computer that is specialized for TDM-based, circuit-switched telephone calls. and exchange carrier services, as well as hosted global business services including VoIP VPN Secure Voice Encryption A VoIP VPN combines Voice over IP and Virtual Private Network technologies to offer a method for delivering secure voice. Because VoIP transmits digitized voice as a stream of data, the VoIP VPN solution accomplishes voice encryption quite simply, , conferencing, global call center and calling card services The software support for PC Cards. PC Card applications talk to Card Services. See PC Card. . The VocalTec Softswitch Architecture is a modular, carrier-grade, standards-based multi-protocol platform that integrates the benefits of SIP, MGCP See MGCP/MEGACO. MGCP - Media Gateway Control Protocol and H.323 technologies. Learn more about our products and solutions at www.vocaltec.com. NOTE: VocalTec is a registered trademark of VocalTec Communications Ltd. Other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. Certain statements contained in this release may contain forward-looking information with respect to plans, projections or the future performance of VocalTec Communications or any of its subsidiaries or businesses or any of its customers, the occurrence of which involves certain risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, product and market acceptance risks, the impact of competitive pricing, competitive products, implementation of cost reduction plans, fluctuations in market demand, product development, commercialization and technological difficulties, and other risks detailed in the Company's reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. VocalTec Communications is under no obligation to (and expressly disclaims any such obligation to) update or alter its forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. |
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